can copy and paste 450GB of videos from old to new hdd cause any damage to the motherboard ?

yafatana

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like stress some parts on the motherboard and cause damage ?
also any way to do it faster than copy and paste ?
I know I can clone but I have a lot of stuff on my old hdd and I want to my my family videos only .
 
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No, moving data from one drive to other drive is not going to damage anything, as long as both drives work fine.
Cloning would not be any faster, its still moving the same amount of data that way or another.
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Well it will take a long time to copy but shouldn't damage your PC,you could copy it in bits so like 100 GB a day say cause it could slow down your PC from being able to do anything else,depending on what your PC is and its CPU,and how fast it is.

One big thing with Windows that slow it down is hard drive activity. Watch Windows 10 at boot up how long it takes of it to stop accessing the hard drive and slowing the PC down.
 

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thanks
will the quality of the video reduced when copy and paste several times ?
 


Nope. It was relevant in the days of tapes, how many times you copy something. Not anymore.